12/17/14
John Young, Oakland University associate vice president of communications and marketing, has been promoted to vice president of communications. Young will report directly to OU President George Hynd and be a member of Hynd's cabinet.

11/16/14
When Irene Kinsey Stare died at age 100 in March 2013, Oakland University already knew she was donating just over $1 million to its Eye Research Institute, which her first husband, renowned eye researcher V. Everett Kinsey, co-founded in 1968. But what OU didn't know was that Kinsey Stare changed her will two months before her death to increase the gift to nearly $3.7 million — making her the single-largest donor in the institute's 46-year history.

10/16/14
Michigan Democrats are hoping to make the most of Hillary Rodham Clinton's visit today by dispatching her to Oakland County — a bellwether county key to their efforts to keep an open Senate seat and upend the state's Republican governor.

09/14/14
Ovshinsky Innovation lives again. That's the name of the company the late Stanford Ovshinsky founded in 2007 after he was forced into retirement by the board of the company he had founded in 1960, Auburn Hills-based Energy Conversion Devices Inc. ECD had given up on him, but he hadn't yet given up on his dream of making cost-effective, flexible solar cells.

08/31/14
At the start of the new academic year, Oakland University has a fresh face in at least two different ways. First, George Hynd has taken the helm as OU's new president. In addition, the university has wrapped up more than $200 million in construction projects in the last two years, with the most expensive — a new $74.5 million building for the School of Engineering and Computer Science — opening its doors to students when classes begin Wednesday.

08/10/14
As the father of a 31-year-old autistic son, Pat Kemp's new role as executive director of a new effort housed at Oakland University to help adults with autism find employment hits close to home. The effort — funded with $130,000 the first year from the Autism Alliance of Michigan, OU and Smiles for Children — hopes to address the need for employment opportunities for the more than 60,000 in Michigan with autism spectrum disorder.

08/10/14
The cost of prepaying a four-year education for Michigan's public universities now is about a third more than the average family makes in a year. One reason: The declining value of state support.

07/13/14
Oakland University releases the latest Southeastern Michigan Economic Outlook results on Monday, which show local economists in the public and private sector and executives are relatively hopeful about economic factors like private-sector employment, unemployment and per-capita income improvement through the end of 2015. Despite economists' optimism, consumers aren't yet sold on the news.

07/13/14
George Hynd was named Oakland University president last week, succeeding interim President Betty Youngblood at the Rochester Hills school. Hynd, 66, spoke with Crain's reporter Kirk Pinho on Friday about his vision and priorities for OU.

07/01/14
The Oakland University board of trustees has approved a $234 million budget for the 2014-15 fiscal year that includes a 3.17 percent increase in average resident undergraduate tuition and a 3.2 percent increase in average resident graduate tuition.

06/30/14
George Hynd has been identified as the third finalist to succeed Oakland University Interim President Betty Youngblood, and an open forum where the public, students and staff can ask questions of Hynd has been scheduled for 2 p.m. Wednesday in the Banquet Rooms at Oakland Center.

06/29/14 Top executive: Betty Youngblood, interim president Patents in 2013: 3 Oakland University was granted patents in 2013 focused on various research areas, including technology that evaluates sheet metal strength before manufacturing, microfabrication — or fabrication of miniature electrical devices — and a thin-layer sensor to detect environmental gases.

05/30/14
This fall, Oakland's School of Business Administration will incorporate business analytics as a new focus within its undergraduate and graduate programs. It will emphasize areas such as financial analysis, management of big data, marketing analysis, supply chain management and consumer demand analysis.